Sunday, May 6, 2012

"Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things
which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too
hesitant to attempt.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances
and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because
they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and
conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in
reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man
than a secure future.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is
his passion for adventure.

The joy of life comes from our encounters
with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an
endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different
sun.

If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination
for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that
will at first appear to you to be crazy.

But once you become accustomed
to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."

—Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

“The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from
change;
they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they
give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow
in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always
coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch
of others who are like them.

Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if
normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own
footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if
you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much
as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to
identify with, then you must be ready for adversity.

If you are
something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while
they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success,
you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares
them.

People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of
doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their
checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in
their games, and that's it.

You're always going to find them in the
place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they
think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.”